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IRREPARABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impossible to repair, rectify, or amend
Example:
irreparable damages
Classified under:
Antonym:
reparable (capable of being repaired or rectified)
Context examples:
As a flash of lightning in the night shows up in an instant every detail of a wild landscape, so at one glance I seemed to see every possible result of such an action—the detection, the capture, the honoured career ending in irreparable failure and disgrace, my friend himself lying at the mercy of the odious Milverton.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
'Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth. He would only add, before he sat down, that he rejoiced—and all of them would rejoice—that these gentlemen had returned safe and sound from their difficult and dangerous task, for it cannot be denied that any disaster to such an expedition would have inflicted a well-nigh irreparable loss to the cause of Zoological science.'
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
